I went to the ACRA conference either last year or the year before (they all
seem to merge into one after a while). The argument presented by the
Awarding Bodies was that they work to very strict deadlines themselves with
marking/checking etc and they issue the result slips at the earliest
opportunity - they felt that they could not issue result slips to arrive a
day earlier.
Please note - I do not agree with their argument - am merely the
messenger!!!
Does anyone have any ideas on how to move any of these issues forward with
the Exam Boards. Issues that are being raised do not seem to be
unreasonable...my thought is whether it is worth bombarding our regional
officers asking for their advice? Or should we try and prepare a document
for the Joint Council?
-----Original Message-----
From: Joanne Hicks [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 07 March 2003 10:37
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Summer results day
Jean
I agree totally, is this something we can push forward via ACRA? Does anyone
know why the exam board object to us having the results slips the day
before, after all we have the results in edi format so what difference does
it make?
We print off our own results slips on the Wednesday which are stuffed into
envelopes awaiting the "official" results slips the following day. Its a
massive operation here with around 30 staff coming in for 7.00am to start
sorting and stuffing, made all the more difficult as candidate number order
doesn't mean alphabetical order anymore! We are expecting around 3000
results for 1500 students, we aim to be ready for 11.00.
-----Original Message-----
From: JEAN PASSMORE [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 07 March 2003 10:25
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Summer results day
We collect from post office about 6.00am with rest of exams staff coming
into work about 6.30am. We hand out 'stuffed' envelopes to students from
9.30. This is very stressful as we also have to confirm the statistics
produced from the EDI files received the day before ready for an official
announcement regarding %age pass rates to be given to the press first thing.
We need to pressure the exam boards to release result slips to us on the
Wedensday so we can prepare envelopes ready to be issued first thing
Thursday - does anyone agree?
-----Original Message-----
From: John McCabe [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 07 March 2003 09:25
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Summer results day
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The FE Exams Network mailing list
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Barbara Connell
> Sent: 07 March 2003 8:57 am
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Summer results day
>
>
> I would be interested in finding out what is the earliest you
> release the
> results to your students. I collect ours from the Post
> Office at 7.00 am
> except Edexcel (like to be different) arrives by special
> post, we like to
> envelope them, so do not let the student pick them up until
> approx 11.00 am,
> I am being pressurised this year to have them available earlier.
>
> I would welcome details of any systems you may have in place
> that makes this
> day less stressful.
>
We wait for the post at about 9.00 am and then envelope them and distribute
the A2 and AS results at about 11.00 a.m. We delay module results until the
afternoon. We have looked at printing out slips from the EDI download but
rejected that because of the usual problems with the quality of results. If
they want fast results, that would be the way to go on the understanding
that the quality of the results will suffer. We regularly expect about 8 to
10 problems out of about 320 A2 students. This year, we found that one of
the boards had messed up the coursework marks so that a large number of
results were wrong on the slips.
Another system adopted in some colleges is to post the broadsheets so
everybody can see what they (and everybody else) got. There are obvious
pro's and con's.
John McCabe
CIS Manager
East Norfolk College
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